Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 2 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 3 | Relaxation of the small company audit requirement has been Institute policy since the debate resumed in 1985 . |
| 4 | As Gilbert 's words faded , he was back at the Unit again , listening to the thing which had once been Dr Bissell as it said … |
| 5 | Mr Duncan , who works at the Unilever Research Labortory in Port Sunlight , has been deputy chairman since the self-governing Trust was set up last year under NHS reforms . |
| 6 | It had been midday Monday before she mentioned , in conversation with one of her regular customers , that MacQuillan had been to the Black Friar . |
| 7 | The principles of Marxist-Leninism had been state ideology until a policy change by the ruling Frelimo movement in 1989 [ see p. 36804 ] . |
| 8 | I remember thinking at the time that the two men were father-figures in more than one sense , and that it might as well have been Father Eliot as Father D'Arcy . |
| 9 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 10 | Stefan , a thin , grey-faced , middle-aged man with stomach ulcers who had been production manager since the Hochhauser Season had begun , sat down at the table , looked at the balance sheet and the final sentence at the bottom and took a bottle of tablets from his pocket . |